2014 – Page 12 – William M. Briggs

160 Eco Prize Winners Take Out New York Times Ad, Beg Money: UN Climate Summit. Update: Fake Winners

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the slickest money grubbing stunt since Al Sharpton met Tawana Brawley. 160 secular self-ordained priests of the Environment have taken out an ad…

Statistics

Autism And Stem-Cell Derived Vaccines: Deisher’s New Paper

Background Stacy Trasancos asked me to review her post "Why Are Catholics Criticizing Dr. Theresa Deisher?", and in particular the paper "Impact of environmental factors on the prevalence of autistic…

Culture Fun

The Inevitable Red Skins Name Controversy Post

Readers have been patiently waiting for the WMBriggs.com take on the Washington Redskins1 controversy, the gist of which is this: Lefties don't like the name because they feel only they…

Statistics

That Innovation Is Negatively Correlated With Religion Study

Quick Quiz O' The Day: What do you get when you marry an abysmal knowledge of history, a sublime narcissism, an ignorance of the nature of evidence, a perverse hatred…

Philosophy

The Science-Is-Self-Correcting Fallacy

"You know my theory is true," said the grant-wielding scientist, "Because science is self-correcting." That statement is a fallacy because, of course, even supposing that science is self-correcting, there is…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Not A Body. Part II

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. God is…

Culture

Scenes From A Mid-Sized University

A couple of small but notable items, lifted from one issue of a mid-sized university school newspaper. "Student success is a major component of the strategic plan..." Component? Strategic plan?…

Culture

Mark Zuckerberg Dresses Like A Bum

Why I am writing about this, what might seem to you, not-too-pressing subject? The answer is discovered below. Before the reveal, an example of an ad hominem fallacy: "Facebook is…

Dors on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
Steelmanning is hardly one of the strong sides of this post. ... You may be entertained, as well as horrified,…
Briggs on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
All, My enemies have a sense of humor, I see. Normally the typos they insert are embarrassing. This one is…
Gwyneth on Should Doctors Be Put In Charge Of Making Decisions About Bodies?July 24, 2024
Perhaps not just scientism. Years back (2004), I read an excellent book by french author Olivier Clerc (Medicine, Religion et…
Yonason on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 23, 2024
RE Hagfish Bagpipe‘s response above… LOL! Similar to my experience of experiencing reduced mental and physical function briefly after ANY…
Milton Hathaway on Reasons Not To Like Prediction MarketsJuly 23, 2024
Hagfish - I, too, had to laugh at the slot machine TikTok video. Yes, it's funny and it looks pretty…